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A Doubtful Victory 


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Love’s Stratagem 


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A Doubtful Victory 

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Love’s Stratagem 
a lFarce in ©ne act 

By 

FRANK DUMONT 


Copyright, 1911, by Samuel French 


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CAST OF CHARACTERS. 


Mr. Adam Duckfit 
Mrs. Duckfit . 

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Estelle Duckfit 
Harold Hobbs 


• . a hen-pecked husband, 
a suffragette and woman of 

deter?nination. 

• a young lady much in love. 

• • • engaged to Estelle. 


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SCENE. —A handsome interior with doors in flats. 

Handsome furniture arranged around the room. 

Rugs. Centre table with lamp. Piano. Tetc-d- 

tete } and articles of bric-a-brac arranged. Music for 

openi?ig. 

{Enter Mr. and Mrs. Duckfit, l., quarreling') 

Mrs. Duckfit. We may as well settle it now as any 
other time. I will be mistress of this house. 

Mr. Duckfit. And I’ll be the master of it, madam. 
When I married you I didn’t sign away all my rights. 

Mrs. Duckfit. Nor did I. You can talk as much 
as you please but I will have my own way in everything. 

Mr. Duckfit. And so will I. I am going to the 
lodge to-night. 

Mrs. Duckfit. And I am going to a suffragette 
meeting. Oh ! I can give them some points on happy 
married life. 

Mr. Duckfit. And so can I. Oh ! If I was a 
single man again- 

Mrs. Duckfit. Oh, if I were but single I’d like to 
see the man who would inveigle me into the meshes of 
matrimony. Nay, nay, Pauline—not any more for 
mine. 

Mr. Duckfit. That’s nice slang, isn’t it ? Nay, nay, 
Pauline. You want to let our daughter hear that ? 

Mrs. Duckfit. She’ll hear worse from you if your 
feeble attempts at liberty are not crushed at once. I’m 
going to the meeting. 


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4 


A DOUBTFUL VICTORY. 


Mr. Duckfit. All right—go ! I’m not detaining 
you. I’m going to the lodge. 

Mrs. Duckfit. What time do you propose coming 
home ? 

Mr. Duckfit. I don’t know. What time will you 
return ? 

Mrs. Duckfit. I don’t know. I may have business 
of importance to transact after the meeting is over, for 
you know I am the secretary. 

Mr. Duckfit. And I am the master of our lodge. 

Mrs. Duckfit. ( sneers ) It’s the only place where 
you are the master. 

Mr. Duckfit. It’s the only place I care to be. 

Mrs. Duckfit. And I want to say a few words to 
Estelle. I don’t want that young man Harold around 
here any more. 

Mr. Duckfit. He seems to be a nice young man. 

Mrs. Duckfit. Yes—of your kind ! I tell you I 
won’t have him calling on my daughter. 

Mr. Duckfit. My daughter as much as your 

daughter. 

Mrs. Duckfit. Well, I don’t want him hanging 
around this house. I’ll pick out a husband for her if 
she needs one. 

Mr. Duckfit. And so will I! 

Mrs. Duckfit. And so you won’t! There’s where 
we lock horns again ! I’ll give Estelle her instructions 
at once. No more Harolds ! 

Mr. Duckfit. All right—let her get who she pleases. 

Mrs. Duckfit. No, indeed ! Whom I please to 
select and no other. Well, I can’t stay here talking to 
you all night. I’ve got to get dressed. 

Mr. Duckfit. Leave me my trousers, please ! 

Mrs. Duckfit. Oh, you get out! Remember, if 
you’re not home by eleven o’clock I’ll come after you. 

Mr. Duckfit. And if you’re not home by half-past 
ten I’ll come after you! {she exits, s lamming the door, L.) 
I’ll get ready to skip out myself and get an hour’s free¬ 
dom and real liberty. Oh ! why did I ever marry a 
strong minded woman ? (Exits, r. ) 


A DOUBTFUL VICTORY. 


5 


{Enter Estelle Duckfit, l. u. e., weeping) 

Estelle. I think it’s a shame that I can’t pick out 
a sweetheart to suit myself. Ma hates Harold and pa 
pretends to like him just to be contrary and spite ma. 
I don’t know how it’s going to end. I’ve got my orders 
to give him the mitten, or in other words his walking 
papers. 

(. E?iter Harold Hobbs, c. d., joyfully) 

Harold. Hello, little girl! Traces of tears on your 
pretty cheeks. What’s up ? 

Estelle. Ma says I must never see you again. 

Harold. All right! Turn down the light and you 
won’t see me. 

Estelle. You don’t comprehend ! You’re out of 
the race. You are dismissed. 

Harold. What! Thrown down ? Who's the other 
guy? 

Estelle. Don’t be slangy, please! There is no 
other guy ! Ma doesn’t like you. 

Harold. Well, I don’t want to marry your mother. 

Estelle. And pa doesn’t like you. 

Harold. He tried to borrow money from me, and I 
didn’t have it—that’s the reason. 

Estelle. Stop joking ! This is very serious—to me. 

(Harold puts arm around her) 

Harold. And it’s very serious to me. Just as I 
won you out, too. Now there must be some other fellow 
in this. 

Estelle. Harold ! Don’t forget yourself. 

Harold. Well, don’t you forget me. ( kicks his 
hat) I've got blood in my eye. 

Estelle. Good-bye ! Our love dream is at an end ! 
Here’s your ring ! {gives it) 

Harold. And here's your locket with your picture 
in it. {takes it off watch chain and gives it to her) 

Estelle. Of course I can’t give you back all the ice 
cream and theatre tickets you gave me. 


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A DOUBTFUL VICTORY. 

Harold. No, I don’t expect them. But you might 
give me back all the presents I promised you. 

Estelle. Don’t be silly ! This is serious because it 
is ma’s orders. Wait! (runs out l.) 

Harold. This is pretty tough ! I win a fine girl 
only to lose her because her ma doesn’t like me. I 
don’t think I want to marry into this kind of a family, 
anyway. 

[Enter Estelle with piles of letters all tied up with 
ribbons. Piles them in Harold’s arms) 

Estelle. Here are your letters ! 

Harold. Is that all I ever wrote you ? 

Estelle. That’s all I could find. I may have a few 
more around somewhere. 

Harold. Well, don’t look for them. I’ll send the 
junk man around after these to-morrow. 

Estelle. Good-bye, Harold. We part forever. 

Harold. Good-bye, Estelle. I’m going down to the 
corner to drink ten bottles of soda water to drown my 
sorrow. (runs out) 

Estelle. Oh ! It’s awful to be broken-hearted. I 
think I'll write a note to Harold and we’ll elope. That’s 
the only way I can see out of this difficulty, {weeps) 
Oh, father ! Oh, mother ! My dream of love is o’er— 
until to-morrow. 

( Enter Mr. Duckfit, r.) 

Mr. Duckfit. What’s the matter, daughter ? 

Estelle. Ma says I’ll never, never marry Harold and 
she has ordered me to drive him out. She says she is 
boss of this house and will never give her consent. 

Mr. Duckfit. Is that so ? We’ll see about this ! 
I’ll give my consent anyway. You tell Harold I said so. 
Now don’t cry. I’ll be back in a few moments. (pats 
her cheeks and kisses her brow) We’ll see who is master 
here. {Exits, c. d.) 

{Enter Mrs, Duckfit, l.) 


A DOUBTFUL VICTORY. 7 

Mrs. Duckfit. Who was that speaking to you just 
now—not that scapegrace Harold, was it? 

Estelle. No, it was pa ! 

Mrs. Duckfit. That old fool is always gabbling 
around. 

Estelle. He’s very mad indeed ! He says Harold 
must never enter this house again. He says he’ll never, 
never consent to our marriage and that what he says 
"goes.” 

Mrs. Duckfit. What he says goes ? ( laughs ) And 
he won’t consent to your marriage with Harold? He 
won’t, eh? Well, I like his impudence. What has he 
got to do with it ? 

Estelle. It’s only to spite you, ma ! 

Mrs. Duckfit. Well, I’ll show him who is boss here. 
Now you will marry Harold. 

(Estelle secretly laughs') 

Estelle. But what about pa ? 

Mrs. Duckfit. I say you shall—and that ends it. 
You will marry Harold. I consent to it. Now, 
Mr. Duckfit, do your worst! ( laughs ) I’ve fixed you 

this time. 

Estelle. Oh, ma ! I’m so happy. 

Mrs. Duckfit. And so am I, getting the best of 
your father ! 

{Enter Harold, c. d., and is about to run out. Estelle 

checks him) 

Estelle. Wait, Harold ! It’s all right. Give me 
back my ring. Take your locket. {bus.) 

Harold. Why, what has happened ? 

Mrs. Duckfit. Nothing ! When I say a thing I 
mean it. Mr. Duckfit thought to spite me in refusing 
his consent to your marriage with Estelle, but I say it 
shall take place. I am a suffragette and I’m never 
bluffed ! 

{Enter Mr. Duckfit, d. c.) 

Mr. Duckfit. Well, is it fixed ? 


NOV 20 1911 


8 A DOUBTFUL VICTORY. 

Mrs. Duckfit. Yes, it’s fixed, you old meddler. 
I’ve given my consent. 

Mr. Duckfit. Hurrah ! I thought you would. 

Mrs. Duckfit. Yes, and it’s a great victory for me. 
Mr. Duckfit. And a bully victory for me. I 
consent! 

Mrs. Duckfit. You may as well, for / have said 
they shall marry—see ? 

Mr. Duckfit. Bully for you ! It’s a great victory 
for me. 

Estelle. And a great victory for me. ( aside to 
Harold) Don’t say anything to spoil it. 

Harold. Pa and ma, your blessing ! 

Mrs. Duckfit. ( pushes Mr. Duckfit away) I’ll 
give mine first. ( blesses them) 

Mr. Duckfit. And you can have mine, (aside) 
We’ve won her over ! 

Estelle. A little stratagem, but it worked all right. 
Your hand, Harold ! 

(They join hands. “Wedding march" by orchestra as 
they 7narch up. Mr. Duckfit r., Mrs. Duckfit l., 
both sneering at each other as if they had won a 
great battle and bested each other in the contest) 




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352 My Lord in Livery 


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VOL. i. 

1 Tke Irish Attorney 

t Boots at the Swan 
t How to fay the Rent 
4 The Loan of a Lover 
8 The Dead Shot 

6 His Last Legs 

7 The Invis.bl* Prino# 

8 The Golden Farmer 

VOL. II. 

9 Pride of the Market 

10 Used Up 

11 The Irish Tutor 

15 The Barrack Room 

13 Luke the Laborer 

14 Beauty and the Beast 

16 St. Patrick’* Eva 
18 Captain of the Watoh 

VOL. III. 

II The Secret [per* 

18 White Horse of the rep- 

19 The Jacobite 
SO The Bottle 
91 Box and Co* 

99 Bamboosling 

93 Widow’s Victim 

94 Robert Macaire 

VOL. IV. 

98 Secret Servio* 

26 Omnibus 

27 Irish Lion 

28 Maid of Croissjr 

29 The Old Guard 
*0 Raising the Wind 

31 Slasher and Crasher 

32 Naval Engagements 

VOL. V. 

.33 Cocknles in California 
34 Who Speaks First 

36 Bombastes Furioso 
38 Macbeth Travestie 

37 Irish Ambassador 

38 Delicate Ground 

39 The Weathercock [Gold 

40 All that Glitters Is Not 

VOL. VI. 

41 Grimshaw, Bagahaw and 

Bradshaw 

42 Rough Diamond 

15 Bloomer Costume 

44 Two Bonnycastles 

45 Born to Good Luck 

46 Kiss in the Dark [jurer 

47 ’Twould Puzzle a Con- 

48 Kill or Cure 

VOL. VII. 

49 Box and Cox Married and 

50 St. C ipid [Settled 

61 Go-t« bed Tom 

*2 The Lawyers 

53 Jack Sheppard 

54 The r ’oodles 

55 The lobcap 
86 Ladles Beware 

VOL. VIII. 

67 Morning Call 

68 Popping the Questlo* 

69 Deaf as a Post 

60 Ne.v Footman 

61 Pleasant Neighbor 
2 Paddy the Piper 

*8 Brian O’Linn 
64 Irish Assurance 
VOL. IX 
66 Temptation 

66 Paddy G»r*y 

67 Two Gregorie* 

68 King Cha-miog 

69 Po-ca-hon-tas 

70 Clockmaker’s Hat 
T1 Married Rake 

79 Love and Murder 

VOL. X. 

78 Ireland and Amertea 

74 Pretty Piece of Business 
76 Irlih Broom-maker 

76 Te Paris auri Baek for 

Five Pounds 

77 Tkat Blessed Baber 

18 Our Gal 

79 Swiss Cottage 

19 Yeung Widow 


VOL. XI. 

81 O’Flannigan and the Fal- 

82 Irish Post [ries 

88 My Neighbor’s Wife 

84 Irish Tiger 

85 P. P., or Man and Tiger 

86 To Oblige Benson 

87 State Secrets 

83 Irish Yankee 

vol. xir. 

89 A Good Fellow 

90 Cherry and Fair Btar 

91 Gala Breezely 

92 Our Jamirny 

93 Miller’* Maid 

94 Awkward Arrival 
96 Orosaiug the Line 

96 Conjugal Lesson 

VOL. XIII. 

97 My Wife's Mirror 

98 Life In New York 

99 Middy Ashore 

100 Crown Prinoe 

101 Two Queens 

102 Thumping Legacy 

103 Unfinished Gentleman 

104 House Dog 
VOL. XIV. 

105 The Demon Lover 

106 Matrimony 

107 In and Out of Place 

108 I Dine with My Mother 

109 Ki-a-wa-tha 

110 Andv Blake 

111 Love" In’76 [ties 

112 Romance under Dlflioul- 
VOL. XV. 

118 One Coat "for 2 Suits 
114 A Decided Case 

16 Daughter [norltv 

116 No; or, the Glorious Ml- 

117 Coroner’s Inquisition 
18 Love in Humble Life 

119 Family Jar* 

120 Personation 
VOL. XVI. 

121 Children in the Wood 

122 Winning a Hatband 

123 Day After the Fair 

124 Malta Your Wills 

125 Rendezvous 

126 My Wife’s fysbaad 

127 Monsieur Tonson 

128 Illustrious Stranger 

VOL. XVII. 

129 Mischief-Making [Ml nee 

130 A Live Woman In the 

131 The Corealr 

132 Shylock 

133 Spoiled Child 

134 Evil Eye 

135 Nothing to Nurse 

136 Wanted is Widow | 

VOL. XVIJI. 

137 Lottery Ticket 

138 Fortune’s Frolie 

139 Is he Jealous? 

K 0 Married Bachelor 

141 Husband at Sight 

142 Irishman in London 

143 Animal Magnetism 

144 Highways and By-W ays 

VOL. XIX." 

145 Columbus 

146 Harlequin Bluebeard 

147 Ladies at Home 

148 Phenomenon in a Smock 

Frock 

149 Comedy and Tragedy 
160 Opposite Neighbors 

151 Dutchman’s Ghost 

152 Persecuted Dutchman 

VOL. XX. 

’58 ivfueard Ball 
, 6 * Great Tragic Revival 
155 High Low Jack A Game 
15$ A Gentleman from Ire- 
157 Tom and Jerry [land 
168 Village Lawyer 

159 Captain’s not A-raiss 

1 60 Amateurs and Aotors 


VOL. XXL 

191 Promotion [ual 

162 A Fascinating Individ- 

163 Mrs. Caudle 

164 Shakespeare’s Dream 
16k Neptune's Defeat 

166 Lady of Bedchamber 

167 Take Care of Little 

168 Dish Widow [Charley 

VOL. XXII. 

169 Yankee Peddler 

170 Hiram Hireout 

171 Double-Bedded Room 

172 The Drama Deiended 

173 Vermont Wool Dealer 

174 Ebenezer Venture [ter 

175 Principle* from Charac- 

176 Lady of the Lake (Trav) 

tOL. XX1I1. 

177 Mad Dogs 

178 Barney tns Baron 

179 Swiss Swains 

180 Bachelor’s Bedroom 

181 A Roland for an Oliver 
189 More Blunder* than One 
183 Dumb Belle 
1»4 Limerick Boy 

VOL. XXIV. 

188 Nature and Philosophy 

186 Teddy the Tiler 

187 Spectre Bridegroom 

188 Matteo Falcon* 

189 Jenny Lind 

190 Two Buzzard* 

191 Happy Mien 
199 Betty Baker 

VOL. XXV. 

193 No. 1 Round th* Comer 

194 Teddy Roe 

196 Object of Interest 

196 My Fellow Clerk 

197 Bengal Tiger 

198 Laughing Hvena 

199 The victor Vanquished 

200 Our Wife 

VOL. XXVI. 

201 My Husband’s Mirror 
302 Yankee Land 

908 Norah Creina 

204 Good for Nothing 

205 Th* First N ight 

206 The Eton Boy 

207 Wandering Minstrel 

208 Wanted, 1000 Milliner* 
VOL. XXVII. 

209 Poor Pilcoddy 

210 Th* Mummy [Glasses 

211 Don’t Forget your Opera 

212 Love In Livery 

218 Anthony and Cleopatra 

214 Trying It On 

215 Stage Struck Yankee 

216 Young Wife A Old Um¬ 
brella 


VOL. XXVTTI. 

217 Crinoline 

218 A Family Falling 

219 Adopted Child 

220 Turned Heads 

221 A Match in the Dark 

222 Advice to Husbands 

223 Siamese Twins 

224 Sent to the Tower 
VOL. XXIX. 

225 Somebody Fite 
2 6 Ladies’ Rattle 

227 Art of Acting 

228 The Lady of the Lions 

229 The Rights of Man 

230 My Husoand’s Ghost 

231 Two Can Play at that 
Game 

232 Fighting bv Proxy 

233 Unprotected Female 

234 Pet of the Petticoats 

235 Forty and Fifty [book 

236 Who Stole the Pocket- 
287 My Son Diana [sion 
238 Unwarrantable T n t •• u - 
2S9 Mr. and M-s. White 
240 A Quiet Family 


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VOL. XXXI. 

241 Cool as Cucumber 
342 Sudden Thought* 

243 Jumho Jmu 

244 A Blighted Being 

245 Little Toddlekins 

24b A Lover by Proxy [Pall 

247 Maid with the Milking 

248 Perplexing Predicament 

VOL. XXXli. 

249 Dr. Dllworth 

250 Out to Nurse 

251 A Lucky Hit 

252 The Dowager 

253 Metamora (BurVsque) 

254 Dreams of Delusion 

266 The Shaker Lover* 

258 Ticklish Times 

VOL. XXXIII. 

267 20 Minutes with a Tiger 

258 MiraJda; or, the Justice 
of Tacon 

259 A Soldier’s Courtship 

260 Servants by Legacy 

261 Dying for Love 

262 Alarming Sacrifice 

263 Valet de Sham 

264 Nicholas Nickleby 
VOL. XXXIV. 

265 The Last of th* Pigtails 

266 King Rene’s Daughter 

267 The Grotto Nymph 

268 A Devilish Good Joke 

269 A Twice Told Tale 

270 Pas de Fascination 
•'71 Revolutionary Soldier 
279 A Man Without a Head 

VOL. XXXV. 

973 The Olio, Part 1 

274 The Olio, Part I 

275 The Olio, Part 8 Iter 

276 The Trumpeter’s Daugb* 

277 Seeing Warren 

278 Green Mountain Boy 

279 That Nose 

280 Tom Noddy’s Sscret 
VOL. XXXVL 

281 Shocking Event* 

282 A Regulnr Fix 

283 Dick Turpin 

284 Young Scamp 

285 Young Actres* 

286 Call at No. 1—T 

287 One Touch of Nairn* 

288 Two B’hoys 

vol. xxxvir. 

289 All th* World’s a Stage 

290 Quash, or Nigger Prao- 

291 Turn Him Out [tiee 

292 Pretty Girl* of Stlllberg 

293 Angel of the Attic 

294 C rcumsfan ceealterCases 

295 Ratty O’Sheal 

296 A Supper iu Dixie 
VOL. XXXVIII. 

I<4 on Parle Francals 

298 Who Killed Cock Roblr, 

299 Declaration of Tudepend. 

300 Heads or Tails fer. a 

301 Obstinate Family 

302 My Aunt 

303 That Rascal Pat 

304 Don Paddy de Bazan 
VOL. XXXTX. [tura 

305 Too Much for Good Ni- 

306 Cure for the Fidget* 

307 Jack’s the Lad 

308 Much Ado About Nothing 

309 Artful Dodger 

310 Winning Hazard 

311 Day’s Fishing [Ac. 

312 Did vou ever send your, 
VOL. XL. 

313 An Irishman’s Maneuver 

314 Cousin Fannie 

315 ’Tis the Darkest Hour be- 

316 Masquerade [fore Do wn 

317 Crowding the Season 

318 Good Night’s Rest 

319 Man with the Carpet Pt*» 

320 Terrible Tinker 


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